# Folder Name to Artist

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/folder-name-to-artist/2330
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [October 5, 2005, 7:17pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/folder-name-to-artist/2330 "2005-10-05T19:17:32Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
**Page:** 1

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### Author: ![AnTiDeatH](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/bc8723/32.png) [@AnTiDeatH](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/AnTiDeatH)
#### Post date: [October 5, 2005, 7:17pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/folder-name-to-artist/2330/1 "2005-10-05T19:17:32Z")

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I'm new to the whole tagging business and i organized all my songs into band name folders manually. So my counting crow songs will be in a counting crows folder. How do i automatically tag the artist names with the folder names or w/e.

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### Author: ![dano](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/dano/32/6_2.png) [@dano](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dano)
#### Post date: [October 5, 2005, 9:18pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/folder-name-to-artist/2330/2 "2005-10-05T21:18:19Z")

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You can use the [Converter](https://docs.mp3tag.de/converters/import-tags-from-filenames) (Press ALT+2).  
Enter %artist%\%dummy%

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### Author: ![system](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/2X/c/ce7035d426cb755a7916793326d23b465222a407.png) [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2026, 12:19pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/folder-name-to-artist/2330/3 "2026-02-09T12:19:28Z")

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